The book presents a new conceptual framework and a set of research
principles with which to study and interpret technology from a
phenomenological perspective. The author is explicitly concerned
with studying ancient technological practices but the general
concept of technology forms the centrepiece of discussion and is
defined as an explicitly social, symbolic, and embodied endeavour
that simultaneously brings into being both human agents and their
material world.
Dobres argues that, for ancient technologies and products to be
fully understood, we need to appreciate the historically
constituted ways in which social agency, technical knowledge and
the gestural acts of artefact production and use were socially
meaningful and, thus, politically charged.
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